Create an illustrated description of the answer to the question below. You may illustrate and narrate it or grab photos and quotes from the internet. The assembling of the page, however, into a cohesive story is uniquely your own. These will be shared with the class after everyone has completed it. Submit as a jpeg or pdg via email.
Question: What is the threat from tectonic activity in your country?
Identify the locations of:
volcanoes
earth quakes
the plate your country sits on
hot spots
Dr. Laffitte's Example: Tectonics of Australia
Figure 1 Figure 2
Figure 1. Australia sits almost in the middle of the Australian plate, which is wedged between the Pacific plate to the east, the Eurasian plate to the north, the Indian plate to the north west, the African plate to the west, and the Antarctic plate to the south. Volcanoes in Australia have not erupted in thousands of years. Figure 2. Australia experiences "intraplate earthquakes" along fault lines dating back millions of years when parts of the country were on or near plate boundaries. The location of earthquake prone areas of Australia are depicted by the the color red.
Figure 3. The primary threat from plate tectonics in Australia today comes from earthquakes along the plate boundaries triggering tsunamis.
You may illustrate and narrate it or grab photos and quotes from the internet.
The assembling of the page, however, into a cohesive story is uniquely your own.
These will be shared with the class after everyone has completed it.
Submit as a jpeg or pdg via email.
how earth made us
Question: What is the threat from tectonic activity in your country?
Identify the locations of:volcanoes
earth quakes
the plate your country sits on
hot spots
Dr. Laffitte's Example: Tectonics of Australia
Figure 1 Figure 2
Figure 1. Australia sits almost in the middle of the Australian plate, which is wedged between the Pacific plate to the east, the Eurasian plate to the north, the Indian plate to the north west, the African plate to the west, and the Antarctic plate to the south. Volcanoes in Australia have not erupted in thousands of years.
Figure 2. Australia experiences "intraplate earthquakes" along fault lines dating back millions of years when parts of the country were on or near plate boundaries. The location of earthquake prone areas of Australia are depicted by the the color red.
Figure 3. The primary threat from plate tectonics in Australia today comes from earthquakes along the plate boundaries triggering tsunamis.